Abraham Lincoln Wisdom and WitPeter Pauper Press, Inc., 1997 - Biography & Autobiography |
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... of the poor . " All that I am , or hope to be , I owe to my angel mother . I remember her prayers , and they have always followed me . They have clung to me all my life . I never went to school more than six months in.
... of the poor . " All that I am , or hope to be , I owe to my angel mother . I remember her prayers , and they have always followed me . They have clung to me all my life . I never went to school more than six months in.
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Louise Bachelder. I never went to school more than six months in my life , but I remember how , when a mere child , I used to get irritat- ed when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand . . . . I can remember going to my ...
Louise Bachelder. I never went to school more than six months in my life , but I remember how , when a mere child , I used to get irritat- ed when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand . . . . I can remember going to my ...
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... never with truth be said of me . I most emphatically , in this instance , made a fool of myself . Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine , should any ever do so , it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and ...
... never with truth be said of me . I most emphatically , in this instance , made a fool of myself . Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine , should any ever do so , it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and ...
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... never had a policy . I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day , as each day came . I have never had a feeling , politically , that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence . I never ...
... never had a policy . I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day , as each day came . I have never had a feeling , politically , that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence . I never ...
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... never professed an indifference to the honors of official station ; and were I to do so now , I should only make myself ridiculous . Yet I have never failed — do not now fail — to remember that in the republican cause there is a higher ...
... never professed an indifference to the honors of official station ; and were I to do so now , I should only make myself ridiculous . Yet I have never failed — do not now fail — to remember that in the republican cause there is a higher ...
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